Hi, my name is Alex and I’ve recently taken to scrubbing bits of wood with metal bars and making a right mess of things! So I’ve decided to try and go about things properly. joined my local club Lincolnshire Woodturners Assoc, and also joined AWGB and am hoping to take some proper lessons sometime soon. I’m interested in some of the courses offered on the awgb website but as far as I can see the site doesn’t give a lot of info on the courses listed (ie. Place, time, dates, year even) so hoping I will be able muddle my way onto something fairly close to my area sometime soon.
My main problem is that I’ve been gifted a small set of (it turns out) rubbish tools ( labelled Messrs Clarke 🤪). They’re all I’ve got at the moment and it’s frightening and frustrating at the same time as you can probably imagine.
Anyway off up to Harrogate tomorrow (another first) where I’m hoping I’ll have my head turned by lots of shiny stuff. But since the missus will be with me I’m going to have to curb my exuberance as I’ll be on a budget. So which three good quality long lasting and easy to sharpen tools wood you recommend? For info I have a NOVA COMET DR MIDI Lathe and am wanting to turn bowls, treen, kitchen items, Christmas ornaments as well as pens.
